Livestock: FG spends N360m in 2yrs vaccinations

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has said it has spent over three Hundred of Sixty Millions Naira (N360, 500.000) as intervention fund on five different vaccines distributed to all states of the federation to checkmate spread of animals’ trans-boundaries disease between 2020 and 2021 years. Food farm News authoritative gathered from the ministry.

 

FMARD had been since 2020-2021-2022 distributing animals’ vaccines to all states’ of the federation cross the six geo-geographical zones to increase animals’ productivity to checkmate meat and milk importations running to billions of naira yearly to meet up with national consumption demand.

 

The spending procurement finance made available to us revealed that a total of N360, 500.00 had been spent for the procurement of five different types of vaccines between 2020 and 2021 in the following budgeted order.

 

In the 2020 budgeted allocation for vaccines intervention, PPR had N38,500.000, CBPP-N8,000.000, FMD-N5,000.000, NCD-N4,000.000, and Anti-Rabbi Vaccine (ARV) -N15,000.000.

 

While in the year 2021, CBPP had N80 million, PPR- N180, 000.000, and NCD had a budget of thirty thousand million naira, and this was aside the distribution cost displayed below.

Recently, in a press release made available to journalists, the ministry has said a total of over 1.8 million vaccines had been distributed to Edo and other states of the South-South free of charge to fight against trans-boundary animal diseases in 2022.

Going by this free vaccines distribution, a total animals put at millions in the following order must have been vaccinated free of charge.

 

According to FMARD ‘‘ Nigeria’s livestock population is put at 22,378,374 Cattle; 53,061,143 Sheep; 99,879,799 Goats; 9,299,563 Pigs and over 425,790,456 Poultry spread across six geopolitical Zones of the country, kept by majority of Nigerians especially in rural and semi-rural settings.

 

The trans-boundary diseases that needed to be prevented through these vaccinations according to the statement include, Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP), Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR), Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Newcastle Disease (ND).